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| seanburns92 |
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Log in to remove this advertisement   Signed him for 10k, £200 a week and a 5 year deal. With him in the team I'm pretty confident we can excel in the CL next season, if I can hold onto him  The league's going up now so a lot of foreign teams looking at my foreigners, fortunately most of them love me and the club so they're happy to stay | |
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| Tweety Pie |
Jun 27, 11 at 9:57pm ^
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| shaunie |
Jun 27, 11 at 9:59pm ^
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I got Tafer on loan again as well as signing Thiago. I also got Cheyrou and Arshavin as they were out of contract
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| Scott |
Jun 28, 11 at 7:32pm ^
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 Nottingham Forest 2025/26 Season Review. Community Shield. Not fussed whether I win the Community Shield or not and it has no bearing on my job security but nevertheless we won it this season on penalties.  Premier League. As defending champions it was the minimum expectation from the board to win the Premier League and we did it with ease really. Went top early on and never looked in doubt of being toppled by anyone. Remaining unbeaten all season was also a bonus. The three draws came against: Man City (H), Leeds (A) & Arsenal (H).  League Cup. Being the League Cup holders we looked to defend our crown and I went with my philosophy of playing youngsters/fringe players to get game time and we managed to reach the final. However in the final I opted to play my strongest XI but it didn't end how we wanted it and we ended up losing the tie to Man City.  FA Cup. As holders of the FA Cup I was extremely disappointed to get eliminated by Sunderland in the 4th round. And for that there won't be any screenies regarding the FA Cup. Champions League. This was the one cup that we didn't start the season as holders for. So it was my aim to win back the Champions League. As you can see we had two losses throughout the competition but it wasn't enough to stop us reaching the final. We didn't have the easiest routes to the final playing tough opposition in the quarter's and semi's which lead to a final against Marseille who I had previously beaten in the 2020/21 Champions League final.   Player Stats, Reserves & Under 18's. This is how my players fared throughout the season. Obviously, winning competitions meant to a lot of good performances. I'd have to say my star performer was John Anderson. He didn't do too well in the cup competitions but in the league he was absolutely fantastic. My reserves won the reserve league and mainly used youngsters from my U18's. My U18's won their league easily, winning every game and having a goal difference of +102 and they also won the U18's Cup.  Next Season's Aims. Well the aim as it's been for a few years now is to win every competition we enter and next season will be no different in that aspect. A few of my players are making rumblings about wanting new challenges so I might ship a few of the more experienced players out and promote some players from the reserves/U18's. | |
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| Tom1 |
Jul 01, 11 at 11:08am ^
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 Season Review 2010/2011
I haven't been able to get in any other game recently so I decided to start as Liverpool again but take a different approach this time, signing new players that I never have before and promoting youngsters such as Suso and Jack Robinson in the first team squad straight away because I have seen the success of Tweety Pie with them and to see if I can get them to develop as they never have for me before, I don't see the likes of Andre Wisdom and Daniel Pacheco ever being good enough to be in the first team so I sent them out out an loan/kept in the reserve team squad. I also want to be as British as I can, on other games I've ended up with less than a hand full of British players in the squad.
I was tempted to sign Eden Hazard as I have done so before but I wanted a change and went for Antoine Griezmann, someone who usually turns out good on my previous saves, I got a good price for him I think too. I wanted a young striker and went for Ishak Belfodil, who I haven't signed before either and proved to be a great goalscorer. Mendy was a player bought in as back-up to Lucas, did okay nothing else. Chamberlain was good when he played, expect good things from him. Same goes for Rafael Tolói was good when called upon. I've also agreed to sign Borja Baston and Thiago on free transfers and will join in July, and have agreed to sign Alphonse Areola for £3.1M who will be back-up to Pepe Reina next season. I don't rate Maxi or N'gog on the game, sold them now whilst they still had value. 
I wanted to win this trophy, sadly we couldn't. I was surprised when my youth smashed Chelseas' first team, and then Forest but Villa were a step to far for them, Martinez scored two and we were out. Want to win this next year. 
Scraped through against Man City, was a tight game. Same goes for Bolton was not easy, but we could not beat The Hammers who were better than us on both occasions, was not happy with the performance against them. 
Never won this competition, was eager to this year, again we couldn't though. Group stages were easy mainly because Andy Carroll was on form scoring in almost every game he played in. Each round of the knockouts was hard, my team love losing 2-1 away from home then coming back to Anfield for the challenge. This was not the case for the semi final though as the first leg was at home so it couldn't be repeated, Hulk scored in the 89th minute to equalise in the first leg, I played my second team in the second leg as I had Everton 3 days after which was a must win game, 5-1 flattered Porto I must say. 
The aim at the start of the season was to come in the top four, we surpassed that, winning the league. No one team stood out all season, top spot changed regularly. We didn't win the league until the last game of the season and it was against Arsenal, was an easy game in the end, I told the players I was thrilled with them drawing 1-1 at half time, this must of inspired them as they scored 2 more rather quickly. Belfodil was top goal scorer with 24 which is great considering it was his first season in England, with Gerrard winning player of the year and Griezmann winning young player of the year award. My plan was to win the league in 3 seasons, so were ahead of a schedule, I was lucky due to the fact that no other team stood out, don't think I've won the Prem with such a low points tally before. 
Steven Gerrard won player of the year and rightly so, he was brilliant, he could of got a few more goals but I can't really complain with 20. Andy Carroll was surprisingly good when he played, scoring 23 in 25 starts think that is my best return with him, he was injury prone though. Dirk Kuyt also had a good season, at the start of the season he was keeping Suarez out the team for a while as he could not stop scoring his form faded as the season went on though. I would post a screenshot of them but I've gone past the stage where you can still them.
My first aim is to get rid of the deadwood the likes of Poulsen, Degen etc, tbh I don't care if they go on a frees I just want all of them lot out the club and off the wage ball. Bring-in wise, I want a deep-lying playmaker and a centre back to replace Jamie Carragher. And I'll look for regens too. Trophy wise I would like to at least challenge for the title again and a domestic cup, also get to at least the quaters in the Champions League. | |
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| Tweety Pie |
Jul 01, 11 at 11:12am ^
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Tom1 - Pacheco is on the edge of the Spain squad for me by now and is a brilliant pacey skilfull forward. Like a Torres-lite
Good league win with a nice points total  unlucky in all the other cups, it really bothered me not winning the Carling Cup, better luck next year Sign Tafer to go with Belfodil?------------------- BOSSA NOVA SIMILIS BOSSA SENECA Small, furry, foreign | |
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| Tom1 |
Jul 01, 11 at 11:19am ^
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| Tweety Pie |
Jul 09, 11 at 3:21pm ^
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 2015/16
In came Isidoro Rocchi (£1.8m), a solid centre back from Internazionale with good resale value, and cheap Paul Boden (£75k), a young attacker who filled a gap in the youth team and seems to be developing quite nicely. Major Transfers Out: Jordon Mutch | £2.7m | Charlton Plus about 20 loans and frees out, we made about £80m in total as the squad was nicely cleared out. Reina and Suarez only left because of their agents, who would not settle for anything below £130k p/w for them, and at their age they just weren't worth it, especially when I had more than adequate younger replacements. Right time to move them on, same for Ayala who had stagnated.
 My first Community Shield. Made my season no matter what else we win. Especially as Rudenok made his return in emphatic fashion with a goal and majestic Mata swept the Gunners before him. Suarez was still at the club at this point, his last trophy for the club.
 After three good runs, shameful to be blown off the scent so easily even if it was my youngsters against a very good Spurs team. Some entertaining matches and early gametime for some youngsters we will review later.
 We won it three times on the trot. Then this happened. But that's cup football for you, one bad day and you are out ofthe running. Arsenal picked the trophy up beating Coventry (League One champions) and are now two ahead on 12.
 It was a fairly novel season as we actually had a challenger for most of it, Man City keeping us for pace even as we strolled through most teams and only failed to score once in a typical Everton away match as they fought like very angry rats making up for what they lacked in ability with luck and fight. The Citizens kept pace so well it wasn't until January we went top  The end season title chase lasted about seven more games before they fell behind due to fixture congestion - they had done well in the FA and Carling - and Mourinho was brought in as manager. A draw in his pivotal first match in charge left a four point gap and we walked our way through the season to win the title in the end, aided to no small extent by Alexey Rudenok's incredible goalscoring.  A fifth consecutive Premiership and we finally overtake Manchester United as the biggest reputation side in England. Can we make it six next year? 
 There was one goal and one point between 1st and 4th in our insanely tight group as my reserves still topped it despite losing all of our last three games. Our victories earnt us a tough last 16 to Valencia, but two away goals and very good home performance saw us through to face Porto, who knocked us out last time we faced them. Again, 2-2 away (Suso was brilliant) and a home win got us through. Atletico are no small opposition, of the six biggest players in the world, three play for them- Ganso, Aguero and Pato. Away goals and two goalfilled games did see us reach the final though...
 Here we are in Amsterdam, injuries having robbed us of Stanislas and Gerrard, auxiliary right winger was Alberto Aquilani... we went two ahead early on but they were masterfully clinical and equalised before half time. We dragged it back though to 4-2, a Rondon goal making it edgy until the final whistle went and our supremity became official. Suso was a brilliant playmaker. 7 times. 
 First things first, Daniel Salazar had his first season as our goalkeeper all the time and the massive American was very good, not faultless, but didn't cost us any matches on his own. Impressive. Next, our right backs, once again Martin Kelly and Glen Johnson just shared the slot and neither excelled as in previous years but were simply functional. Emiliano Insua covered both left and right back while Jack Robinson had an exemplary season at left back, offering more attacking threat than he has before. Between our fullbacks the preferred combination was Daniel Agger and Danny Wilson who were as always excellent, even as Agger returned from a leg break. Conor Coady played backup effectively once again and so did young hulking German Sergey Akhmetov  In midfield, Lucas as always was godly and key to every single gameplan we possess, Jonjo Shelvey had another excellent season as a box to box midfield and popped up on many important occasions while Suso was if possible even better than Lucas as a linchpin. Alberto Aquilani had to be phased out as did Steven Gerrard as both become venerable (although Aquilani scored in the Champions League Final - not gone yet) with Robert van den Berg seeming to be a typically excellent Dutch playmaker. Casemiro and Lee Cattermole were both disused backup and should be moved on soon.  Juan Manuel Mata was once again my hero, best player, favourite player. He scores, he assists, he destroys the opposition and is Spanish. What more do you want? On the right Junior Stanislas wasn't as good as last year in general performance but was more productive and played most games. Pablo Sarabia was his usual self as backup, quick and good. Daniel Pacheco had a good start to the season but faded off, making way for 28 goal man Alexey Rudenok - one of them will take No. 7 next year, Pacheco is the more 7ish player, but Rudenok has performed better...  The reserve squad was quite thin this year after our clearout, consisting of various youngsters - Brazilian defensive midfielder Nirvana who had a poor disciplinary record, French winger/attacker in the mould of Kuyt Adel Belhaoua both having first team spells. Digão was backup goalkeeper and looks very impressive, Joe Wright is a quick academy fullback I am hoping to replace Insua with. Jack Williams has been England U19s star performer and a good left winger, on the right Tom Ashman is more rounded and slightly older, also good prospect. Dane Rasmus Elgaard will go out on loan next year to get him experience at AMR, Ross Carter is very exciting as a new central midfielder and Luke McCoy should replace Cattermole and Casemiro as my squad defensive midfielder. Next year, youth plays more as a new generation comes in, and we win the FA Cup, Club World Cup and Super Cup. We got a plan. ------------------- BOSSA NOVA SIMILIS BOSSA SENECA Small, furry, foreign | |
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| FIFAleachy |
Jul 09, 11 at 6:03pm ^
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 AFC Wimbledon WOMBLING ON - 2011/12 INTRODUCTION AFC Wimbledon were facing their first season back in the Football League since their traumatic liquidation back in 2004 where the club then became MK Dons. Many Wimbledon fans didn't want to be relocated to Milton Keynes so they instead talked with the FA and started a club named AFC Wimbledon. The newly created side saw 5 promotions in 7 years taking them all the way to the Blue Square Premier. They had one season in the BSP and they finished it in a comfortable 8th place. Then things looked even brighter. This is where I came into play. I took over the side for the 2010/11 season and rebuild the club in a single pre-season and we soared to dizzy heights winning the Blue Square Premier by an impressive 43 points, finishing with 134 points aswell as scoring 151 goals. We also won the FA Trophy against Droylsden in the final after a 4-1 win. Unfortunately Sheff Wednesday ended our FA Cup dreams as we lost 1-0 at Hillsborough in the 2nd Round. TRANSFERS A lot of the side I had put together were already good enough to do well in League Two but you can't go wrong with a few more signings just to add all the more strength in depth. Obviously to have a squad as strong as it was for the Blue Square Premier it involved a lot of foreign imports who had second nationalities of EU nations. This meant that I had to add English talent to my side, in order for me to be able to register the squad.  James Wallace, John Flanagan, Aaron Cresswell, Jan Sebek & Ryan Mason were all released from their respective sides and jumped at the chance to sign for the improving AFC Wimbledon. They added the English quality that I needed to be able to register the squad (Sebek is a Czech, but classifies as trained in England). Then the signings of Mahamadou Sissoko, Scott Ross, Aziz Leyalachi, Fitim Kaciku, van Dieren and Lombardo all added extra quality but aren't English (Ross is Scottish however). As for the outgoing transfers a lot of the squad who's contracts were expiring were left to leave the club to raise some extra wage so I could get more players in. The sales of Dziewicki, Schmadtke, Saharov and Dosek were all good players for me last season, but they were getting too old to be worth a longer contract so I cashed in on them whilst I could. PRE-SEASON  The side I put together for the pre-season turned out to be a gelling period for the side. However, the results were still very positive. The first game was a decent enough result for the side, against Bradford. Then we strung some impressive results together defeating Cheltenham, Hereford and Torquay who are all League Two opposition so it was good to face them, and beat them all. Then we travelled all the way South West to face Truro who we demolished and then a nice win over Blackburn's Reserves followed to complete an unbeaten pre-season. JOHNSTONE'S PAINT TROPHY  The Johnstone's Paint Trophy was the first time that AFC Wimbledon had the chance to take part in it's competition. With us now being a League Two side, we had the right to participate and we opened the 1st Round South with a 3-2 win against League One opposition against Leyton Orient. The next Round saw us defeat another League One side in Charlton as Brandy continued his scoring in the JPT. Next up was Stevenage in the Quarter Final and we gave them a nice battering just like we should have after a quality display. Despite the Semi Final being a defeat we were really unlucky in this game as MK Dons (bitter rivals of ours) only won the game after a late penalty decision gave them the win inside the 90 minutes. CARLING CUP  The Carling Cup was again another competition that we were participating in for the first time due to us now being in the Football League. The First Round draw saw us draw Exeter away from home, which ended up totalling as the third of three League One sides that I had beaten this season. The next round wasn't as good as it could have been as we lost fair and square in a 2-1 defeat at Villa Park. It was a decent run whilst it lasted, but it did allow us to turn our attention to doing well in League Two. FA CUP  The FA Cup was another chance for us to put on a giant-killing display (or kind of anyway, moreso bigger sides). We didn't do too well in the 1st Round after been held to a 2-2 draw with York at Bootham Crescent. The replay leg ended up with us just edging it after York put up a great fight. The Second Round saw us draw Plymouth Argyle away from home, it didn't look like it was possible to win seeing as they were sat around 15th in League One in a solid campaign. We ended up beating them 3-1 though, and it was a good game to watch but two of our goals were converted penalties. So we had finally made it to the Third Round under my management and against all odds we were drawn against Manchester City. The look on my face after the draw was gutting, as I was hoping for a team of lesser quality such as Alfreton or AFC Telford that were just two of the lesser sides still in the draw. Fortunately the game was at home, so we gained some extra income as we got murdered. But we did earn £100k in gate receipts. N-POWER LEAGUE TWO  League Two started off very well for us, as we went the first 12 games unbeaten before we lost our 13th game against Aldershot. Those 12 games added onto the previous 46 league games unbeaten in the Blue Square Premier totaled to 58 league games unbeaten in total which is quite an astonishing record to behold for a lower league club. The rest of the season was pretty much the same, many a win scattered with the odd draw or loss along the way. We secured a play-off spot after 38 league games which made things look like it was indeed possible to hit promotion to League One. Then the 40th game of the season (a 3-3 draw with Stevenage) saw us win automatic promotion to League One. Then after a 2-0 win at home to Cheltenham (Di Gregorio & Gregorek) that confirmed us as n-Power League Two champions. And just like last season we kept up our record or scoring over 100 goals and picking up 100 points. It isn't bad when you think over the last two league seasons that my team has managed to accumulate a whopping 285 goals along the way, mesmorizing. We also didn't drop from 1st place in the table since Matchday 6. PLAYER STATISTICS  There is the player statistics from the concluded season and some rather impressive stats in there, particularly Febian Brandy's natural instinct to score goals for the club on a regular basis. Including last season and this season put together he's managed to score # goals, which is pretty classy for a free transfer, and there's been clubs like Colchester and Norwich showing interest in him. Strandhagen was another key performer in the midfield, as was Sissoko in defence. Cresswell had a great season aswell down the left side. STRONGEST SIDE KOLAR Back-to-back Promotions as Champions: Completed. Man City have just been named as our Parent Club too, so i'm in hope of getting a few good youngsters off their books. :> -------------------  Can you pinpoint the place where you lost control? | |
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| ho1mesy2011 |
Jul 09, 11 at 6:12pm ^
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| Tweety Pie |
Jul 09, 11 at 6:15pm ^
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FIFALeachy - Crewe better have gone up
Once again an exemplary season, hope you do the 100s next year as well ------------------- BOSSA NOVA SIMILIS BOSSA SENECA Small, furry, foreign | |
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| Tweety Pie |
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 2016/17
In came Matt Burdett (£1.4m), a Robinson-esque left back from Middlesbrough and Javier Diaz (£1m) a solid centre back from Valladolid as we enter our third year since a major signing Major Transfers Out:
Barely any changes, simply promoting a few youth higher up the ladder to replace Clyne/Cattermole/Wisdom. Van den Berg goes on loan to Europa League side Sociedad to get games and come back ready to replace Aquilani more fully.
 We were down to ten men after half an hour and Chamakh scored two wonderful goals to deny us the trophy. A good experience for some youth players though.
 Our reserves against one of the best teams in Italy, staring Wesley Sneijder. And we matched them, a penalty, an own goal and a red card against us swerving the result. Pablo Sarabia grabbed a consolation.
 The Carling Cup doesn't matter anyway. Win it once and you've won it all the times you need. Pacheco did score 5 on our way out of the competition though which was pleasing.
 A hat-trick from Adel Belhaoua against Enyimba as our 10 men were spearheaded by little Jay Spearing, providing both goals, set us up against River in the Final. Stanislas, Mata and Lee Wright got us a 3-1 victory as for the first time Liverpool became Champions of the World.  World Club Cup Winners 2017
 We overcame the rest of the top four fairly easily with relative ease to reach the final as we proved ourselves superior to our nearest competitors. The biggest challenge we faced was the mighty Crewe Alexandra who gave us a stiff test and we were lucky to escape Anfield with a 3-1 win by the skin of our teeth.  The Final came midweek between Ipswich and the Champions League Final, but a strong team still helped grab us an 11th title that draws us equal with Manchester United and one behind Arsenal. The own goal should have belonged to Gerrard, but apparently the deflection from his volley meant they could steal the legends goal. Despite dominating we couldn't break them down and Cox scored after Salazar parried Di Franco's effort. Dani Pacheco's extra time goal won us the Cup, but were we too tired for the Champions League Final...? FA Cup Winners 2017
We have won this trophy five years running. The idea is no-one challenges very much, and if they do it falls off around 25 games. But this year, Mick McCarthy was in charge of Manchester United  Decent results in the first half of the season, including that run of wins- part of a 14 game streak that broke a club record. But we never went top. Man Utd were in insurmountable form, extending their lead after our poor streak during a November/Decent injury crisis that put Jay Spearing on the teamsheet on a regular basis. We did manage to down United in their first league defeat of the season but the table was still poor...  Up until April we looked like we would follow United all the way, as they maintained only a narrow 3 point lead throughout the race- every time we slipped up, so did they. Then challenging on three fronts really hit us, along with injuries, and our form faltered drastically as they continued to score endlessly. We had lost the title by Blackburn.  We had given up on the title after that, but even if we had taken 6 more points by taking Chelsea and United seriously, we'd have been ten behind the Devils. Look at their goal total - that shows how overpowered counter attacking is on this game, McCarthy literally just hoofs the ball to Hernandez/Rooney/Delfouneso and it works. Against us he got penalties and two corners as well. A shameful season after our past exploits and Gerrard's last- he netted twice in his sendoff home to Ipswich though in an emotional match.  Premier League Runners Up 2017
 We came second in a hard group containing Bayern and Shakhtar thanks to two away losses. Thanks to Steven Gerrard for scoring twice in a qualification earning comeback home to Donetsk. As runners up, the last sixteen was not kind to us, AC Milan one of the toughest teams to face in Europe, especially with the bad memories of our 4-0 defeat at San Siro in 2015. We dominated the home leg, but Paloschi scored a 40 yard screamer to set up a dodgy leg at San Siro.. Alexey Rudenok converted a penalty though to send us through a tight clash. Aquilani, Pacheco twice, Wilson and Mata netted as we thrashed Lyon 5-2 at Anfield. My reserves had no trouble keeping score down Marseille in the semi finals, on the face of it a kind draw. But the first leg was a disaster as we failed to score when we should have, conceding twice on the counterattack after taking the lead, including a heartbreaking last minute winner from Derdiyok. The second leg was an epic, Shelvey put as ahead after quarter an hour, but at 30 minutes in Danny Wilson got sent back. Lucas dropped into centre back and we continued to play as we could, but were out on away goals as it stood. Suso finished a team move, then substitute and legend Steven Gerrard made it 3 in a heroic match.
 I have no shame in admitting I was a nervous wreck by the end of this. We went to the Ibrox tired after the FA Cup Final in midweed, against a fresh Madrid side. 7 times winner versus 12 times winners. We had to rotate, Wilson suspended, Johnson/Gerrard/Robinson/Pacheco on their last legs. We went to Glasgow aiming to defend our title and served up a stunner. Replacement Alexey Rudenok smashed it in after just three minutes though as we took the game to Real. Then disaster struck as our key player Juan Mata was out of the game. On came Aquilani and Suso moved to left wing, ten minutes later it was 2-0 as Stanislas placed a shot in the corner. Another two just after half time as Suso slipped it past Bernd Leno and Shelvey looped a header gave us a 4-0 win. Seeming unsurmountable. Or not, as straight from restart Ozil equalised. Then Higuain clawed it back to 4-2 with a long range wondergoal. 3 minutes to go and 4-3 as Ronaldo finished in the box. We played it out though, winning our second consecutive 4-3 Champions League Final as Steven Gerrard lifted his fourth Champions League. Champions League Winners 2017
 Daniel Salazar was our goalkeeper through all important matches this season and the humongous American was once again very solid, setting up moves with throws to fullbacks. Glen Johnson was our experienced head at the back during Daniel Agger's frequent injury hit spells, both performing well when called upon, although at 32 they are entering the zenith of their illustrious careers. Martin Kelly was slightly disappointing in terms of consistency, with Emiliano Insua far better defensively when he played, although offering less going forwards. Sergey Akhmetov played nearly 40 games as he covered numerous injuries and was decent, probably replacing Agger over the next season or two. Jack Robinson had his first captaincy season and excelled with his responsibility, although he is still yet to score for Liverpool. Danny Wilson played regularly and avoided major injury, our best performing defender. Conor Coady was versatile cover again, with decent passing and tackling making up for 0% shot on target rate (including one goal) all season, a feat shared with Jay Spearing who was called upon in times of injury and was surprisingly good, netting and setting up 3 goals. Lucas was as always the man between attack and defence, excelling in his tempo-dictating role, spreading the ball to Jonjo Shelvey who had another good season, scoring important goals despite a few injuries. Alberto Aquilani is 32 this year, and is still young for an Italian, obviously, he assisted many key goals and will look to see out his career at the club before joining the coaching staff. Suso was once again injury prone but came up with some very very good moments when available. Anderson covered both positions and was average on the whole, although he earnt a Brazil cap. In more attacking positions the most impressive player was Juan Mata in no surprise to anyone as the Ballon D'Or third place oozed class. On the opposite flank Junior Stanislas was as always solid and set up as well as scored his fair share. Perennial backup Pablo Sarabia was his usual self, earning a Spain callup despite being rarely used. Steven Gerrard, The Legend That Is He. For a 36 year old he has very impressive stats, 5 goals in 2 starts and 10 sub appearances? He is a GOD. Up front I had a competitive set of three, Alexey Rudenok the athletic man with a good header on him. He disappointed me this season after pushing 30 goals last year, he blasted too many easy chances wide in a manner almost reminiscent of Carroll. Lee Wright started well, but faded off. He only stayed on at the club rather than be loaned out thanks to making his England debut and scoring twice (before he'd ever scored for Liverpool!). The star was Dani Pacheco who nearly got 30 goals and won us the FA Cup. Full of flair and class, he could be relied upon the convert when Wright or Rudenok failed. Reserves: 
Next year the Champions League Final is at the Olympic Stadium. Having won a European Trophy in Ireland (Dublin, Europa League 2011), Wales (CL 2013) and now Scotland (CL 2017) we only need England and N.Ireland to cross off our list. Ask for screens, I have them of every player mentioned but they won't upload which has annoyed me considerably :< Edit: Jul 13, 11 8:56am ------------------- BOSSA NOVA SIMILIS BOSSA SENECA Small, furry, foreign | |
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Blackburn Rovers Season One 2010/2011
Started a new career with Blackburn my aim is to try and win the premierleague with all 20 teams passes the time while i'am doing security work So I started off by signing Gokhan Gonul for 1.4m from Fenerbahce then signed Julien Faubert (West Ham) and Jo (Man City) on season long loans I then sold Frank Fielding for 100k to Leicester and Ryan Nelson for 2.1m to Everton. Premier League Finished 8th in the league Liverpool claimed the title by 3 points from Arsenal FA Cup Lost in the 4th round to Fulham League Cup Lost in the 4th round to Wolves. Top Scorer Nikola Kalinic 18 Most Assists Jo 8 Best Average Rating Christopher Samba 7.17 | |
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| ArwelT |
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 Real Madrid season 2010/2011 LA LIGA The league was always going to be ours, we were 9 or so points ahead of Barca all the way throguh the season and we even coulda finsihed La Liga unbeaten, we got to the 30th league game without a loss before losing 3-0 to Atheltico Madrid, but this didn't effect the players at all and our next game we returned to form and beat Barca 2-1 in the Copa Del Rey  COPA DEL REY I didn't expect to win this in truth, especially when we got Atheltico Madrid the only team we struggled with this season, but we battled through it, but unforutnately for me we got tough draws but thankfully we also battled through those leading into a final with Barca in which we won   CHAMPIONS LEAGUE We were handed a very tough group consisting of Man City, Bayern and Ajax and needed a last day win to qualify, thankyfull it was the Di Maria show and he coasted us through that final game in a 3-0 win vs Man City  As you can see we started off shit, we deserved to win every game bar the two Bayern games but thakfully we got through, Lyon was pretty difficult but Milan were a walk in the park. Finally we did get eliminated by Arsenal because we put in two crap performaces and that cost us  BEST PLAYER Yeah just had to show this  Absolutely sensational season from him Was superb, scored some *bleep*ing crackers aswell, not mcuh else to say abotu it, 72 goals says it all really:) | |
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